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Big 12 Conference – Press Release Player of the Year: Jalen Wilson (Kansas) Newcomer of the Year: Keyontae Johnson (K-State) Defensive Player of the Year: DaJuan Harris (Kansas) Freshman of the Year: Keyonte George (Baylor) Sixth Man Award: Sir’Jabari Rice (Texas) Most Improved Player: KJ Adams (Kansas) Coach of the Year: Jerome Tang (K-State) All-Big 12 First Team Adam Flagler (Baylor)* Jalen Wilson (Kansas)* Keyontae Johnson (K-State) Markquis Nowell (K-State) Marcus Carr (Texas) All-Big 12 Second Team Keyonte George (Baylor) Gabe Kalscheur (Iowa State) Gradey Dick (Kansas) Damion Baugh (TCU) Mike Miles Jr. (TCU) All-Big 12 Third Team LJ Cryer…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV The Big 12 has unveiled the 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship bracket, following the conclusion of the 18-game league schedule. On the final Saturday of the season, No. 3 Kansas, No. 7 Baylor, No. 11 K-State and No. 22 TCU all lost. Critical victories in the conference on Saturday were Texas beating Kansas, to secure the No. 2 seed after losses earlier in the day by K-State to West Virginia and Baylor to Iowa State. The Longhorns will get the winner of No. 7 Oklahoma State and No. 10 Oklahoma,…
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer MANHATTAN — Kansas State can make a Final Four. That’s something that no Wildcat team has done since 1964. But it can be done this season. In the first year of the Jerome Tang era in Manhattan, the Wildcats have won 23 games before the regular season has even concluded. With a Saturday trip to West Virginia still to come, Tang has already matched Bob Huggins for the second-most wins in an opening season coaching the Wildcats. “We thought we had a tournament team,” said Tang when asked what about his team gives him belief in postseason success following the…
by Mason Voth • EMAWOnline – Managing Editor – @TheRealMasonV Due to postgame senior recognition, Oklahoma completed its media availability early. Therefore we have no video of Porter Moser’s postgame comments.
by Gabe Swartz • EMAWOnline – Staff Writer MANHATTAN — Kansas State is surging. After a slow opening 17 minutes on Wednesday night at Bramlage Coliseum and a first half that included 12 missed layups for the Wildcats, Kansas State started to find its footing. After Oklahoma tied the game at 25-25 with 3:28 to go in the first half, the Wildcats closed the final three minutes with a 9-0 run and took complete control of the contest with two show-stopping plays. As the clock ticked inside a minute to go in the half, senior guard Desi Sills caught a pass in transition and flipped it…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse It’s August 2022 and Kansas State point guard Markquis Nowell sits in the front seat of his car with Keyontae Johnson. Nowell recently arrived at the residence of his first-year head coach Jerome Tang to scoop Johnson after the Florida transfer target and his family completed a meal with Tang to discuss Johnson’s potential transfer to Kansas State for the 2022-23 season. For more than half an hour, Nowell and Johnson discuss what their goals are for what is likely to be their last season of college basketball. For Nowell, it’s about being named Big 12…
by Alec Busse • EMAWOnline – Lead Reporter – @Alec_Busse Desi Sills is a man of faith, but he admits that God can occasionally work in “mysterious ways.” The senior guard was playing at one of the highest levels of college basketball for one of the sport’s rising coaching stars — Eric Musselman — while playing at Arkansas in 2019-20. But then the path changed for Sills. Bebe Iyiola was a teammate of Sills at Arkansas in 2019-20 before joining him again at Kansas State for their final year of eligibility in 2022-23. Iyiola didn’t play a single game with Sills in their time…